User talk:Chabamba

Welcome!


Hello, Chabamba, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages that you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum see the Wikipedia Teahouse.


 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia or the Tutorial
 * Create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * How to add those all-important references
 * Simplified style guide

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. Again, If you need help visit the Teahouse or you can  to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! We are so glad you are here! Nick Moyes (talk) 00:15, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello.
Hi Chabamba. It's great to have another librarian here. I'm a retired museum curator, myself, so we probably have a few things in common. If you ever need help with editing, please ask at the Teahouse. I've dropped by because you've made a slight error in writing about yourself in the way that you did. For some reason you created a 'template' which I've just had to put forward for deletion, as this was quite the wrong place to add content. You just need to directly edit your userpage - but please don't make it look like an encyclopaedia entry, or that'll get deleted. Just say a few lines about yourself and your interest in editing and contributing to Wikipedia. It is also inadvisable to add your personal contact details (email/phone number) and our automated filters alerted us to you trying to do this in some of your edits.

I'm afraid I have also had to revert your recent edits to Inauguration of Edgar Lungu as you added information in the wrong place in the article. Can I ask: are you using an editing app to make these #AfLibwk #1Lib1Ref edits? I ask this because I have seen so many well-meaning but really bad edits made with that hashtag in the edit summary over the last few days. I wrote a little guide to adding citations (which need to go immediately after the statement in the article, and not put directly in the 'References' section.) You can find it at WP:EASYREFBEGIN. You might also like to take our interactive tour at The Wikipedia Experience. Let me know how you get on. Nick Moyes (talk) 00:27, 27 May 2020 (UTC)